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Amidst poverty and disease in post- World War II Naples, the Italian Communist Party arranged for the opportunity for poorer children from southern Italy to board a train bound for northern Italy, where more stable host families would temporarily adopt these children, with more resources available to nurture them and give them a better life. The Children’s Train tells a fictional story based on these real-life historical conditions, but is it compelling enough to stream on Netflix? THE CHILDREN’S TRAIN : STREAM IT OR SKIP IT? The Gist: Based on the novel by Italian author Viola Adrone , The Children’s Train follows Amerigo (Christian Cervone), a young boy living in poverty with his mother Antonietta (Serena Rossi) in post-war Naples. Antonietta agrees to send Amerigo north through the Italian Communist Party’s “trains of happiness” program, which will set him up with a host family better-equipped to care for a child. Things don’t go quite as planned when Amerigo’s initial family falls through and he’s taken in by single woman Derna (Barbara Ronchi), with her brother’s large family becoming Amrigo’s by extension. Ultimately, Amerigo will feel conflict between the birth mother he misses and the surrogate family who cares for him in her absence. What Will It Remind You Of?: If you’ve seen an Italian drama where barefooted children scamper through the street, you might feel a twinge of familiarity during this one. Performance Worth Watching: Barbara Ronchi does the most nuanced and complicated work as a woman who initially has more loyalty to her political party than interest in helping to raise a child, even temporarily. Sex and Skin: Nope. The story is told almost entirely from a child’s point of view. Memorable Dialogue: “Come and see the oven!” It’s not a great line on its own, but after Amerigo has been told lies about the host families deciding to eat their new charges, his new family’s enthusiastic entreaty to come see the oven up close results in a funny misunderstanding. Our Take: There’s a heartbreaking series of contrasts at the heart of The Children’s Train , between a mother’s love for her son and her ability to provide it; between what a woman assumes about her own capacity to care for a child, and what she learns about herself as she does the job; and between a boy’s complicated feelings about both parental figures, and how that’s mixed up with socioeconomic comforts. But while the movie is handsomely assembled, it never feels truly immersive as it addresses those feelings, instead taking on an episodic structure that feels like large chunks of the source material must have been cut for time. Necessitating a fair amount of set-up and running just 96 minutes before credits, the movie itself winds up feeling as divided between its two principal locations as its young hero, but not in a productive way. By the time Amerigo feels fully adjusted to life in northern Italy, that section of the film turns out to be wrapping up, and the movie essentially lays its big emotional climax on the shoulders of a character who hasn’t been on screen for much of the past hour. Without more detailed characterization, the movie, frankly, resembles an odd cross between an interesting anecdote and an extended guilt trip, moreso than the tearjerker it’s aiming for. Our Call: If you’re looking for the kind of awards-level foreign-language films that often appear in limited release around the end of the year, SKIP IT, though the movie is watchable enough. Jesse Hassenger ( @rockmarooned ) is a writer living in Brooklyn. He’s a regular contributor to The A.V. Club, Polygon, and The Week, among others. He podcasts at www.sportsalcohol.com , too. Stream The Children's Train on Netflix
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Is he a hero? A killer? Both? About the same time the #FreeLuigi memes featuring the mustachioed plumber from “Super Mario Brothers” mushroomed online, commenters shared memes showing Tony Soprano pronouncing Luigi Mangione , the man charged with murdering the UnitedHealthcare CEO in Manhattan , a hero. There were posts lionizing Mangione’s physique and appearance, the ones speculating about who could play him on “Saturday Night Live,” and the ones denouncing and even threatening people at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s for spotting him and calling police. It was all too much for Pennsylvania's governor, a rising Democrat who was nearly the vice presidential nominee this year. Josh Shapiro — dealing with a case somewhere else that happened to land in his lap — decried what he saw as growing support for “vigilante justice.” The curious case of Brian Thompson and Luigi Mangione captivated and polarized a media-saturated nation. It also offers a glimpse into how, in a connected world, so many different aspects of modern American life can be surreally linked — from public violence to politics, from health care to humor (or attempts at it) . It summons a question, too: How can so many people consider someone a hero when the rules that govern American society — the laws — are treating him as the complete opposite? Writings found in Mangione's possession hinted at a vague hatred of corporate greed and an expression of anger toward “parasitic” health insurance companies. Bullets recovered from the crime scene had the words “deny,” “defend” and “depose,” reflecting words used by insurance industry critics, written on them. A number of online posts combine an apparent disdain for health insurers — with no mention of the loss of life. “He took action against private health insurance corporations is what he did. he was a brave italian martyr. in this house, luigi mangione is a hero, end of story!” one anonymous person said in a post on X that has nearly 2 million views. On Monday, Shapiro took issue with comments like those. It was an extraordinary moment that he tumbled into simply because Mangione was apprehended in Pennsylvania. Shapiro's comments — pointed, impassioned and, inevitably, political — yanked the conversation unfolding on so many people's phone screens into real life. “We do not kill people in cold blood to resolve policy differences or express a viewpoint,” the governor said. “In a civil society, we are all less safe when ideologues engage in vigilante justice.” But to hear some of his fellow citizens tell it, that's not the case at all. Like Bonnie and Clyde, John Dillinger, D.B. Cooper and other notorious names from the American past, Mangione is being cast as someone to admire. Regina Bateson, an assistant political science professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, has studied vigilantism, the term to which Shapiro alluded. She doesn’t see this case as a good fit for the word, she says, because the victim wasn’t linked to any specific crime or offense. As she sees it, it's more akin to domestic terrorism. But Bateson views the threats against election workers , prosecutors and judges ticking up — plus the assassination attempts against President-elect Donald Trump this past summer — as possible signs that personal grievances or political agendas could erupt. “Americans are voicing more support for — or at least understanding of — political violence,” she said. Shapiro praised the police and the people of Blair County, who abided by a 9/11-era dictum of seeing something and saying something. The commenters have Mangione wrong, the governor said: “Hear me on this: He is no hero. The real hero in this story is the person who called 911 at McDonald’s this morning." Even shy of supporting violence, there are many instances of people who vent over how health insurers deny claims. Tim Anderson's wife, Mary, dealt with UnitedHealthcare coverage denials before she died from Lou Gehrig’s disease in 2022. “The business model for insurance is don’t pay,” Anderson, 67, of Centerville, Ohio, told The Associated Press . The discourse around the killing and Mangione is more than just memes. Conversations about the interconnectedness of various parts of American life are unfolding online as well. One Reddit user said he was banned for three days for supporting Kyle Rittenhouse, who was acquitted after testifying he acted in self-defense when he fatally shot two people in 2020 during protests. “Do you think people are getting banned for supporting Luigi?” the poster wondered. The comments cover a lot of ground. They include people saying the UnitedHealthcare slaying isn't a “right or left issue" and wondering what it would take to get knocked off the platform. “You probably just have to cross the line over into promoting violence,” one commenter wrote. “Not just laughing about how you don’t care about this guy.”By MATTHEW BROWN and JACK DURA BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Donald Trump assigned Doug Burgum a singular mission in nominating the governor of oil-rich North Dakota to lead an agency that oversees a half-billion acres of federal land and vast areas offshore: “Drill baby drill.” That dictate from the president-elect’s announcement of Burgum for Secretary of Interior sets the stage for a reignition of the court battles over public lands and waters that helped define Trump’s first term, with environmentalists worried about climate change already pledging their opposition. Burgum is an ultra-wealthy software industry entrepreneur who grew up on his family’s farm. He represents a tame choice compared to other Trump Cabinet picks. Public lands experts said his experience as a popular two-term governor who aligns himself with conservationist Teddy Roosevelt suggests a willingness to collaborate, as opposed to dismantling from within the agency he is tasked with leading. That could help smooth his confirmation and clear the way for the incoming administration to move quickly to open more public lands to development and commercial use. “Burgum strikes me as a credible nominee who could do a credible job as Interior secretary,” said John Leshy, who served as Interior’s solicitor under former President Bill Clinton. “He’s not a right-wing radical on public lands,” added Leshy, professor emeritus at the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco. The Interior Department manages about one-fifth of the country’s land with a mandate that spans from wildlife conservation and recreation to natural resource extraction and fulfilling treaty obligations with Native American tribes. Most of those lands are in the West, where frictions with private landowners and state officials are commonplace and have sometimes mushroomed into violent confrontations with right-wing groups that reject federal jurisdiction. Burgum if confirmed would be faced with a pending U.S. Supreme Court action from Utah that seeks to assert state power over Interior Department lands. North Dakota’s attorney general has supported the lawsuit, but Burgum’s office declined to say if he backs Utah’s claims. U.S. Justice Department attorneys on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to reject Utah’s lawsuit. They said Utah in 1894 agreed to give up its right to the lands at issue when it became a state. Trump’s narrow focus on fossil fuels is a replay from his 2016 campaign — although minus coal mining, a collapsing industry that he failed to revive in his first term. Trump repeatedly hailed oil as “liquid gold” on the campaign trail this year and largely omitted any mention of coal. About 26% of U.S. oil comes from federal lands and offshore waters overseen by Interior. Production continues to hit record levels under President Joe Biden despite claims by Trump that the Democrat hindered drilling. But industry representatives and their Republican allies say volumes could be further boosted. They want Burgum and the Interior Department to ramp up oil and gas sales from federal lands, in the Gulf of Mexico and offshore Alaska. The oil industry also hopes Trump’s government efficiency initiative led by billionaire Elon Musk can dramatically reduce environmental reviews. Biden’s administration reduced the frequency and size of lease sales, and it restored environmental rules that were weakened under Trump . The Democrat as a candidate in 2020 promised further restrictions on drilling to help combat global warming, but he struck a deal for the 2022 climate bill that requires offshore oil and gas sales to be held before renewable energy leases can be sold. “Oil and gas brings billions of dollars of revenue in, but you don’t get that if you don’t have leasing,” said Erik Milito with the National Ocean Industries Association, which represents offshore industries including oil and wind. Trump has vowed to kill offshore wind energy projects. But Milito said he was hopeful that with Burgum in place it would be “green lights ahead for everything, not just oil and gas.” It is unclear if Burgum would revive some of the most controversial steps taken at the agency during Trump’s first term, including relocating senior officials out of Washington, D.C., dismantling parts of the Endangered Species Act and shrinking the size of two national monuments in Utah designated by former President Barack Obama. Officials under Biden spent much of the past four years reversing Trump’s moves. They restored the Utah monuments and rescinded numerous Trump regulations. Onshore oil and gas lease sales plummeted — from more than a million acres sold annually under Trump and other previous administrations, to just 91,712 acres (37,115 hectares) sold last year — while many wind and solar projects advanced. Developing energy leases takes years, and oil companies control millions of acres that remain untapped. Biden’s administration also elevated the importance of conservation in public lands decisions, adopting a rule putting it more on par with oil and gas development. They proposed withdrawing parcels of land in six states from potential future mining to protect a struggling bird species, the greater sage grouse. North Dakota is among Republican states that challenged the Biden administration’s public lands rule. The states said in a June lawsuit that officials acting to prevent climate change have turned laws meant to facilitate development into policies that obstruct drilling, livestock grazing and other uses. Oil production boomed over the past two decades in North Dakota thanks in large part to better drilling techniques. Burgum has been an industry champion and last year signed a repeal of the state’s oil tax trigger — a price-based tax hike industry leaders supported removing. Burgum’s office declined an interview request. In a statement after his nomination, Burgum echoed Trump’s call for U.S. “energy dominance” in the global market. The 68-year-old governor also said the Interior post offered an opportunity to improve government relations with developers, tribes, landowners and outdoor enthusiasts “with a focus on maximizing the responsible use of our natural resources with environmental stewardship for the benefit of the American people.” Related Articles National Politics | Beyond evangelicals, Trump and his allies courted smaller faith groups, from the Amish to Chabad National Politics | Trump’s team is delaying transition agreements. What does it mean for security checks and governing? National Politics | Judge delays Trump hush money sentencing in order to decide where case should go now National Politics | Republicans scramble to fill JD Vance’s Ohio Senate seat National Politics | Fear of losing U.S. Space Command unites Colorado’s congressional delegation Under current Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, the agency put greater emphasis on working collaboratively with tribes, including their own energy projects . Haaland, a member of the Pueblo of Laguna tribe in New Mexico, also advanced an initiative to solve criminal cases involving missing and murdered Indigenous peoples and helped lead a nationwide reckoning over abuses at federal Indian boarding schools that culminated in a formal public apology from Biden. Burgum has worked with tribes in his state, including on oil development. Badlands Conservation Alliance director Shannon Straight in Bismarck, North Dakota, said Burgum has also been a big supporter of tourism in North Dakota and outdoor activities such as hunting and fishing. Yet Straight said that hasn’t translated into additional protections for land in the state. “Theodore Roosevelt had a conservation ethic, and we talk and hold that up as a beautiful standard to live by,” he said. “We haven’t seen it as much on the ground. ... We need to recognize the landscape is only going to be as good as some additional protections.” Burgum has been a cheerleader of the planned Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, North Dakota. Brown reported from Billings, Montana.
They come in long convoys of tractors, sometimes with months of food supplies with them, to stage protests. Their demands may differ, but concerns about rising costs and falling incomes are common. Farmer angst around the world has been intensifying since 2021, from Paris and London to Delhi . And increasingly, their protests have started looking similar. In London, hundreds of farmers stormed Britain’s heart of government, Whitehall, this week, protesting a proposed 20% inheritance tax they say will be a stab in their backs. Their angst reflects broader dissatisfaction among many farming communities around the world, especially since the pandemic, including in India and mainland Europe. According to the Centre for International Policy Studies, dozens of farm groups in six continents have been protesting agricultural policies since 2021. Read more: SC panel ready with list of issues affecting farm sector The London scenes brought back memories of a standoff outside Delhi, where an uprising by farm unions during 2020-21 prompted the government to scrap three market-oriented agricultural laws. There are other echoes of Delhi in London. “No farmers, no food,” said a protester on BBC. Another held a placard: “Small farmers will die. They’ll have to borrow to pay tax.” “Tax businesses not farms. A 20% inheritance tax? It’s ridiculous, if you ask me,” said Sarah Boulden, a farmer from Wiltshire, southwest England. These concerns are similar to the core issues raised by farmers in food bowl states, such as Punjab. “The reasons vary. The demands differ. But what may be common (about the disenchantment) is the feeling that governments don’t realise the old ways are gone, and the new problems are new,” said Jeremy Clark, a London-based campaigner with the World Farmers’ Organisation (WFO), over phone on Wednesday. The latest challenges all over the world, to a large extent, have emanated from changing markets, declining profits and climate change, resulting in a “unappreciated crises”, Clark said. The protest in London was joined by celebrity TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson and James Dyson, a prominent business tycoon who supported Brexit. Farm unions in India, the world’s second-biggest wheat and rice producer, are seeking guarantees, backed by law, for minimum purchase prices of crops. In Europe, farmers in Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy and France etc. have driven tractors across their countries to protest curbs on how much fertilisers they can use and even how many acres they can sow. The new EU measures are part of concerted steps being taken to meet climate and emission goals. Subsidies for crop inputs are being slashed. In India, experts say subsidies alone haven’t been enough for producers to keep up with cultivation costs. Farmers have also become politically savvy. “In Europe, the protests were held in the run-up to the EU parliamentary polls, while in India too farmers were seen intensifying protests ahead of major elections,” said Mukul Paranjape, a researcher with the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. While India doesn’t tax farm income, cultivators have long claimed they never get federally fixed floor prices for many commodities. Studies have shown that Indian farmers are “net taxed” or implicitly taxed due to the government’s efforts to keep food prices low. India’s agriculture sector hasn’t been generating enough revenues to keep farmers profitable for nearly two decades, according to a landmark 2018 report by the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a grouping of 36 countries, and ICRIER, a think tank. The study looked at, among others indices, gross receipts — or total assets without adjusting for expenses— to the farm sector. Agriculture in India suffers negative total revenues despite large subsidies because of missed income opportunities due to frequent export bans and prohibition on stockpiling. So, prices paid by farmers have outstripped prices earned by them. Farm movements aren’t new. The Farmers’ Alliance, an American agrarian movement during the 1870s, sought to improve the economic conditions through collective bargaining through cooperatives and political advocacy. Cultivators in the US then faced similar problems as those in developing economies, such as India, a country with excess farm labour and small landholdings. Small land parcels typically lack economies of scale, which refers to falling costs with rising production. In January 1979, nearly 5000 farmers drove tractors to Washington, D.C., in a movement known as tractorcade to protest the Carter administration’s foreclosure of all loans, just as north Indian farmers had done in Delhi in January 2021, a protest that had turned violent. The group that led the rebellion, Sanyukt Kisan Morcha, has planned a renewed phase of protests from next month with their old demand: guaranteed floor prices. The Union government announces minimum support prices for more than 20 crops to set a floor rate, so that farmers get a basic price assurance. However, government agencies buy only rice and wheat at the assured rates in sufficiently large quantities, which means several other produce, such as soyabean, groundnut, mustard, millets, lentils and maize etc, are sold for any price depending on what the markets offer. “These problems are not unique to India in the sense that European farmers think that regulations to make farming environment-friendly will hit their earnings. It’s ultimately an income issue,” Paranjape said. The centre-left Kier Starmer government will levy, from April 2026, a 20% tax on inherited agricultural assets worth more than £1m, which were previously exempt. Still, this is half the non-farm inheritance tax rate. The argument for inheritance tax has been influential, especially after radical French economist Thomas Picketty published his book “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, which called for “confiscatory” tax on inherited wealth to cut down inequality. Picketty, who marshalled centuries of data, argued that wages will always rise at a far slower pace than earnings from assets and profits, forever increasing the gap between rich and poor. His solution is a globally coordinated wealth tax, so that rich asset owners can’t relocate their assets to tax havens. In a recent paper, Picketty suggested a similar tax for India. “Raise phenomenally large tax revenues while leaving 99.96 per cent of the adults unaffected by the tax. In a baseline scenario, a 2 per cent annual tax on net wealth exceeding ₹ 10 crore and a 33 per cent inheritance tax on estates exceeding ₹ 10 crore in valuation would generate a massive 2.73 per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in revenues,” his India paper suggested. In the UK, the farm inheritance tax will similarly apply on big-ticket estates worth more £1 million. However, farmers say that while they are “asset rich” in terms of their land, many are cash poor. Clarks said that many farmers would be forced to sell their estates. “Farmers don’t mind paying taxes. Bring them on provided farmers can earn profits that can match non-farm earnings,” Clarks said. Rising costs of cultivation are a common concern across farming communities. According to Britain’s agriculture department, there are about 210,000 farm estates worth £1 million or more that could be subjected to the inheritance tax. Clarks says piggery costs have risen by 54%, cattle rearing by 44% and grain farming by 43% due to higher food, fuel and fertiliser prices because subsidies have been declining since Brexit. An average farm last year made profits of about £45,300, according to government estimates. But farmers say this an exaggerated estimate because it excluded farms with lower earnings. In India too, farmers complain of rising costs and uncertainties from extreme weather. India sets inflation-indexed minimum support prices such that they give one-and-a-half times profit over costs. However, cultivators want these prices to be legally enforceable. Moreover, they want the government to use a broader measure of cultivation costs. The government uses the so-called “A2” formula, a narrower measure that includes all out-of-pocket expenses, plus the value of family labour. Farmers instead want the government to use the “C2 formula”, which includes the actual paid-out costs (on seeds, fertilisers, irrigation, etc) plus the notional value of family labour and rent, besides interest on owned land and capital. “Agriculture worldwide is on its knees. Farmers have reached the end of the rope,” Clark said. This is what Indian farmers allege too. There’s a sense of a rupture in the “social contract” between farmers and governments.Dragon Claws/iStock via Getty Images Business Overview Crispr Therapeutics ( NASDAQ: CRSP ) is a biotechnology company focused on the development and commercialisation of gene therapies targeting rare diseases (e.g. Duchenne, Sickle cell disease and beta thalassemia), diabetes type I, oncology, autoimmune disorders and cardiovascular diseases. 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